The Role Data Science Can Play in Healthcare
🧪 Principal Data Scientist - Population Health Analytics
🎓 Previously: Political Scientist - University of Houston, Texas
📈 Specialisms: Research Design, Statistical Inference, Machine Learning
Beyond the Buzzwords
Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician.
— Josh Wills (@josh_wills) May 3, 2012
Some common themes:
What Does a Data Scientist Look Like?
When given the prompt “data scientist”, this is what the GAN Dall-E Mini returns…
There is more to data science than the technical skills.
For example:
Most of all, a passion for finding solutions to complex problems!
Why do we need it?
Where Can (and Has) Data Science Been Applied in Healthcare?
Hospital readmissions are a significant cost to the NHS, and can be a sign of poor quality of care.
Could help to identify patients at risk of readmission and improve the quality of care.
Grading retinal images is a high-level pattern recognition task. Perfect for deep learning!
Could significantly reduce the grading workload, giving graders more time to focus on more complex cases.
There’s a lot of data in the NHS, and a lot of reports to be generated from it.
Could save a lot of time for analysts, giving them time to focus on more complex tasks.
It’s difficult to estimate excess deaths due to multiple factors.
This could help to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the NHS, and could be used to inform future planning and resource allocation.
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